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1. Tourism Journey @ WCC 2016 Forum (1‐6 September 2016)
* TAPAS sponsored or organized sessions; ‐> note the specific start time
For full Congress Schedule and additional session information: https://portals.iucn.org/congress/sessions
8:00‐9:30 9:30‐10:30 10:30‐12:00 12:00‐14:30 14:30‐16:30 17:00‐19:00 19:00‐21:00
Thu 1st
Sept
WCC OPENING CEREMONY
Neal Blaisdell Center
‐> 10:00‐12:00
WCPA MEMBER MEETING
Hawaii Convention Center
Rm 313B
‐> 13:30‐17:30
WCC OPENING RECEPTION
Hawaii Convention Center
‐> 18:00‐20:00
Fri 2nd
* SIDE MEETING:
TAPAS Members
Meeting
(Elena Nikolaeva)
Russian
Networking
Lounge
8:00‐9:30
WORKSHOP: Ecotourism as a tool
for conservation of iconic marine
species in the Pacific Islands
(Michael Donoghue)
Room 315
‐> 11:00‐13:00 (#WCC_9691)
*SIDE MEETING:
Equity and benefit
sharing from tourism
on protected areas
(Elena Nikolaeva)
Russian Networking
Lounge
14:30‐16:00
*WORKSHOP: Natural Sounds and Healthy
Parks: Global Research and Initiatives (Jim
Barborak)
Room 317B
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_9668)
WORKSHOP: Innovation in Protecting
Marine Ecosystems and Managing Fisheries
and Tourism in the Coral Triangle –
Collaborative Approaches (Jacqueline
Thomas)
Room 313C
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_9690)
*KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ: Community Benefits
from Nature‐Based Tourism (Sue Snyman,
Kelly Bricker, Anna Spenceley, Elena
Nikolaeva)
Room 311‐6
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_9737)
*KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ: What Can Public
Protected Areas Learn from Private
Protected Areas? (Delphine King)
Room 311‐13
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_10385)
UNDP KAUHALE: Community Based
Tourism and Protected Areas in Brazil:
Potentialities and Challenges (Marta
Azevedo Irving)
Room 314‐UNDP Kauhale
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_12617)
E‐POSTER: Hawaii Ecotourism
Association’s Sustainable Tour
Certification Program:
Promoting Best Practices and
Conserving a Unique Place
(Linda Cox)
Screen 11
‐> 13:00‐13:30
(#WCC_10086)
Sat 3rd
*KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ: Regional
Sustainable Tourism Initiatives as
Conservation Change Agents (Carla
Danelutti, Natalie Lobartolo)
Room 311‐8
‐> 8.30‐10.30 (#WCC_10359)
KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ: Wet and Wild:
Promoting Sustainable and Responsible
E‐POSTER: Ecotourism Potential
as Payment for Ecosystem
Services for Protected Area
Management in Bangladesh
(Shams Uddin)
‐> 14:00‐14:30 (#WCC_9871)
*PAVILION: Best Practices in Sustainable
Tourism: Guidelines, Solutions and
Examples (Yu‐Fai Leung, Peter Prokosch,
Marie Fischborn)
Business and Biodiversity Pavilion
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_12148)
PAVILION: Blue Economy: Diving with
Cetaceans: Closing the Breach between
E‐POSTER: Ecotourism as a
tool for Biodiversity
Conservation and
Community Livelihoods:
Achievements and Policy
Implications (Anil Kumar
Bhardwaj)
Screen 24
19:00‐19:30 (#WCC_10125)

2. Ecotourism Experiences with Marine
Wildlife (Adam Kurtz)
Room 311‐4
‐> 8:30‐10:30 (#WCC_103590)
Tourism and Conservation in South Asia
(Nisha D’Souza)
Oceans and Islands Pavilion
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_12267)
8:30‐10:30 10:30‐12:00 12:00‐14:30 14:30‐16:30 17:00‐19:00 19:00‐21:00
Sun 4th
*WORKSHOP: Biodiversity in Voluntary
Certification Standards and Labels
(Diana Shand, Giulia Carbone)
Room 317B
‐> 8:30‐10:30 (#WCC_10235)
*WORKSHOP: Nature at a Scale that
Matters: Innovative Approaches for
Long‐Term Funding of Protected Areas
(Kate Zdilla, Peter Prokosch)
Room 310
‐> 8:30‐10:30 (#WCC_10225)
*KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ: Reinforcing the
Role of Cultural Tourism Management
Planning to Sustain Biodiversity and
Communities at Tentative Indigenous
World Heritage Sites (Fergus Maclaren)
Room 311‐10
‐> 8:30‐10:30 (#WCC_10384)
* SIDE MEETING: TAPAS Tourism
& Biodiversity Work Group
Meeting (Yu‐Fai Leung, Elena
Nikolaeva)
Russian Networking Lounge
‐> 13:30‐15:00
E‐POSTER: Monitoring the
Environmental and
Socioeconomic Impacts of
Tourism Concessions in the
Tijuca National Park (Brazil)
(Camila Rodrigues)
Screen 11
‐> 14:00‐14:30
(#WCC_9877)
Workshop: Does
Hunting Have a
Future? Hunting,
Conservation
Incentives and
Community
Livelihoods in a
Changing World (Rosie
Cooni, SULi)
Room 316A
14.30‐16.30
(#WCC_10240)
*WORKSHOP: Visitors Count! Count
Visitation! Socioeconomic Evaluation of
Tourism in Protected Areas: On the Way to
a Global Standard (Barbara Engels, Paul
Eagles, Anna Spenceley)
Room 317B
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_10215)
Mon 5th
*E‐POSTER:
Visitors Count! Count Visitation!
(Barbara Engels, Niklas Scheder,
Joel Erkonnen, Cathy C. Thomas)
Screen 5
‐> 13:00‐13:30 (#WCC 9835)
*KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ:
Sustainable Tourism
Standards and
Certification:
Implications for
Conservation and
Livelihoods (Kelly
Bricker, Anna
Spenceley, Randy
Durband)
Room 311‐13
14:30‐16:30
(#WCC_10418)
KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ: Environmental,
economic and social impacts of polar
tourism (Nathalie Hilmi, Celine Le Bohec)
Room 311‐7
17:00‐19:00 (#WCC_9790)
*E‐POSTER: Accelerating the
Shift Towards Sustainable
Consumption and
Production Patterns
Through the 10YFP
Sustainable Tourism
Programme (Virginia Trapa)
Screen 16
19.00‐19.30 (#WCC_10507)
E‐POSTER: Recreation
Classification, Tourism
Demand and Economic
Significance; Analysis of the
Federal Protected Areas of
Brazil (Thiago do Val
Simardi Beraldo Souza)
Screen 19
19:00‐19:30 (#WCC_9841)
Tue 6th
Last updated: 16 August 2016, Yu‐Fai Leung and Chelsey Walden‐Schreiner, TAPAS/NCSU